Administrator: Talking to your faculty

What are the benefits of releasing OER?

Is it mandatory for our university to provide an incentive for faculty members who create OERs?

It is not mandatory, of course. However, many institutions seem to believe that it is helpful to offer such incentives, at least until the practice of . Here are some incentive models you can consider.

What kind of support should the institution provide faculty?

This would vary by institutions. When MIT first started its OpenCourseWare project, the team’s goal was to make sure that they do not take more than an hour’s time from each faculty member. Thus, the OCW team took care of all digitization and intellectual property clearance of the faculty. Times have changed. More faculty members are tech-savvy now, and technology enables easy authoring practices. Depending on e-learning experiences of the faculty, the institutions offers help with technical and legal aspects of creating open contents. Some institutions provide student help, some other institutions offer services at their education technology department.